Sequel
The nightstick with which Fisk had the cabbie beaten with makes a brief reappearance in a later story. In Daredevil #300, the climax of "The Fall Of The Kingpin" story, the tables have turned for Fisk–Murdock is now the one systematically destroying Fisk's business and image, while Fisk struggles to hold on to what he has left. As an act of desperation, he goes to the New York Port Authority Terminal, where he had the nightstick–complete with the blood stains of the cabbie and Murdock's fingerprints–stashed away. In a flashback to the scene where Murdock is in the cab being pushed into the river, Fisk claims that it is good to hold on to such incriminating evidence, as someone might want to resurrect Murdock's fallen image. When Daredevil tracks Fisk to the terminal, Fisk breaks the protective glass surrounding the nightstick and is then photographed by Peter Parker, fleeing the terminal. Daredevil manages to catch Fisk and wrest the nightstick away from him, after which he tosses it into a fire destroying any incriminating evidence that Kingpin might have used against Murdock.
Kingpin is later confronted by a low-level mob contact who feels the time is ripe to take Fisk for whatever he's worth left, including having Fisk retrieve his laundry for him. Fisk smashes the man's skull in with his cane, and walks off with a renewed sense of purpose, vowing to fight his way back from insanity and homelessness. Meanwhile, Murdock is readmitted to the bar and resolves to continue his protection of the innocent as Daredevil.
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“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)